Introduction: More than 40% of patients that are admitted to the hospital with HF exacerbations are discharged to LTC facilities. It is estimated that 50% of those patien[...]

Purpose: Rates of sexually transmitted infections among adolescents remain high in the United States and Botswana. Mobile phone density rates in Botswana exceed those of [...]

Suicide is a major public health problem, which affects people of all ages and ethnicities. Despite being preventable, the rates of suicide have steadily climbed (more th[...]

African Americans have a higher incidence rate of heart failure (HF) and an earlier age of HF onset compared to those of other racial and ethnic groups. Scientific litera[...]

This DNP scholarly project was implemented to evaluate the impact of prewarming on the incidence of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH) in adult patients undergoi[...]

ABSTRACT NICOLE PHAY WARE. Exploring nurses’ knowledge and comfort as heart failure educators in a non-cardiac acute care environment prior to providing an online learni[...]

Incentive spirometry (IS) is one intervention used to prevent pulmonary complications after surgery. Incidence for pulmonary complications after coronary artery bypass gr[...]

Cardiac surgeries often rely on opioid analgesics, which can lead to adverse effects. The implementation of the multimodal analgesic approach, as a part of the ERAS proto[...]

Increase in volume and acuity of patients following Chest Pain Center Percutaneous Intervention (PCI) accreditation at a hospital in the foothills of North Carolina, led [...]

There is a disconnect between acute and primary care when transitioning elderly patients from the hospital to the community, often leading to insufficient primary care fo[...]